Side plate for cabinets and the like



Sept. 30, 1924. 1,510,025

C.WEESNER SIDE PLATE FOR CABINETS AND THE LIKE Filed Au 2!) 1923 In vim-0R,

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Patented Sept. 30, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFHITE.

CLAY WEESNER, OF NEWCASTLE, IND

NA, ASSIGIIUIL T9 HQOSIER BIAN'UFACTURING' SIDE PLATE FOR CABINETS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed August 20 1923. Serial No. 658,242.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, CLAY l VEEsNnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newcastle, in the county of Henry and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Side Plates for Cabinets and the like, of which the following is a specification. I

My invention relates to improvements in side plates used in supporting and securingthe superstructure of a kitchen cabinet to its base member, and it is my object to provide such side plates with substantial means of supporting the superstructure, with means of enabling the readily securing and detaching of such plates from the cabinet members, and with means or" preventing displacement or the side members in relation to the cabinet members when such side plates are secured thereto.

In transporting kitchen cabinets, it is usually advisable to remove the superstructure of the kitchen cabinet from the base in order to afiord greater ease in handling as well as to enable cratinand packing such that the separate paclrages will occupy less space than would be the case were the cabinet handled in its entirety. My side plate is designed to facilitate such disassembly and reassembly.

Heretofore side plates have been provided with round holes instead of marginal slots for the passage of attaching screws, and the retail dealer, or the ultimate user in some instances has been required to bore the holes for the screws in the wooden base and superstructure and drive them in to attach the side plates. This, while entailing considerable labor and annoyance upon the parties making such final assembly, has resulted in defective assembly of the cabinet members which the plates unite, caused by improperly locating the screw-holes and by the breaking ofl of the screw-heads while endeavoring to force the screw into hard wood in which holes too shallow or too small have been made by the assembler.

An important object of this invention is to provide spacing lugs on the inner faces of the side plates that will bear upon the cabinet base and under the superstructure, respectively, and fix the distance apart of said cabinet members exactly, and the object also is to provide for the proper boring of the screw-holes and placing of the screws at the factory, ready to receive the plates without removal of the screws and to properly lock the plates to the base and superstructure simply by tightening up the screws.

1 accomplish these and other objects as may hereinafter appear by the means as illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which i Fig. 1, is a side elevation of the plate; Fig. 2, a top plan view ot same; i 5, an end elevation; Fig. 4, a side elevation of a kitchen cabinet, showing the side plate in relation to the cabinet superstructure and base; and l 5, a front elevation of a kitchen cabinet with the side plates and base and superstructure assembled.

Like characters of re erence indicate like parts in the several v' 's of the drawings.

The cabinet base (3, has the sliding moldboard '7 and supported from and above the base by side plates 8 is the cabinet superstructure 9. All oi said parts are of usual and well known construction except the plates 8, a description oi one of which will suiiice for both.

The plate 8 has a flat lower flange. member 10 and a similar upper flange member 11 and said members are connected by an integral part 12 bowed outwardly as shown to give clearance for the sliding moldboard 7. Proper positioning of the bowed part is insured by two inturned tongues 18, 18, preferably punched out of the sheet metal from which the side plates are made. Their tongues, in making an assembly, are placed in narrow recesses 14: (see Fig. 4) sawed in the ends of the cabinet base to receive them.

Like tongues 15 are formed in the upper flange member 11, for the cabinet superstructure to rest upon, and thereby accurately distancing the superstructure above the base.

Vertical marginal slots'lti, here shown as three in number, are formed in the lower flange member 10 to receive holding screws 17, and like marginal slots are formed in the upper flange member 11, also to receive screws 17. The metal on each side of each slot 16 is pressed outwardly adjacent the outer end of the slot to form lugs 18 which lock the plate on the screws after assembly, by driving in the screws until their heads contact the plate. Screws having heads with fiat inner faces are preferably used, and they are left projecting far enough as placed at the factory, to allow the lugs to pass the heads of the screws in the assembly of the plates with the base and superstructure of the cabinet.

The use of my invention is as follows: The holes of the side plate holding screws are made at the factory in the base and superstructure of the cabinet and the screws are partly but not fully driven. The screws in the base are out far enough to allow the plate to he slipped into position with the screws in their slots and the lower tongues in their seats in the base. Then the screws are driven until their heads are firmly contacting the plate. Then the superstructure is lifted, into position with its screws in the slots in the upper flange of the side plates and the bottom of the superstructure resting upon the top row of tongues, and the screws in the superstructure are then tightened up. The lugs 18 prevent withdrawal. of the screws through the slots.

lr laving thus fully described my invention, what I claim is new and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is1- l. The combination with the base and superstructure of a cabinet, screws in said members of the cabinet, and a mold board slidingly mounted on the base of the cabinet and separating the said superstructure from the said base of the cabinet, of end plates having the central portions thereof outwardly curved to provide clearance for said mold board, and said plates having two horizontal rows 01 inturued tongues punched out of the metal of the plate to space the base and the superstructure of the cabiuot apart, and also having vertical screw slots entering from each horizontal margin oi the plates and receiving said screws, and said slots having lugs at the sides of the slots to prevent sliding movement of the screw-s in the slots when the screw heads are contacting the plate.

2. The combination, with a cabinet comprising a base member, a superstructure above the base and a moldliioard slidingly mounted between them, of a plate of sheet metal having portions adjacent each hori- Zontal edge contacting said base and super structure respectively and each of said portions having a plurality of vertical scrc\\'- slots entering from the horizontal top and bottom edges of the plate, each of said slots having outward projections to engage with the head of a screw passing through said slot and limit the sliding movement of the plate on the screw, said plate having a plurality of iirturi'ied ears punched from the metal plate and resting upon the cabinet base and a plurality of higher like formed supporting the cabinet superstructure, and screws having shanks passing through the slots into the respective base and super structure members Signed at Newcastle, Indiana, this the 16th day of August, 1923.

CLAY VVEESNER. 

